• Robert F. Hale was serving as Executive Director of the American Society of Military Comptrollers when President Barack Obama appointed him Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)?

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Finance

• Fischer Black Prize, first awarded in 2003, is the finance analogue to the Clark Medal in economics and the Fields Medal in mathematics, introduced in 1947 and 1936, respectively?
• after losing to Tiger Woods in the 1994 U.S. Amateur Championship, amateur golfer Trip Kuehne pursued a career in finance in lieu of professional golf?
• each year over 1000 research papers are submitted for academic publishing in the Journal of Finance (finance's most cited journal) of which only five are awarded Smith Breeden or Brattle Prizes?
• the Macmillan Report's most briefly discussed issue, an alleged "gap" in British industrial financing, was one of the only recommendations acted upon?

Certified Public Accountant

• Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf is a C.P.A. and lawyer whose first job assignment was the delinquency of then-owner of the White Sox Bill Veeck?

Economics

• African American economist Abram Lincoln Harris was a four-time recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in economics?
• developing countries hoping to participate in globalization are experimenting with a U.S.-originated economic policy called Rubinomics?
• economist Walter Adams served as expert witness before 36 United States Congressional committees?
• Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz studied economics at Harvard University for two years before moving to Palo Alto, California to work on Facebook full-time?
• Fischer Black Prize, first awarded in 2003, is the finance analogue to the Clark Medal in economics and the Fields Medal in mathematics, introduced in 1947 and 1936, respectively?
• Dr. Ibrahim Oweiss, Georgetown University economics professor, coined the term "petrodollars" to describe the US dollar income of oil-producing countries in 1973?
• time discipline is the set of social and economic rules, conventions, customs, and expectations about time and its measurement?
• in economics, the kinked demand curve theory was the first attempt at explaining sticky prices?